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Mosque in Purtio. The Caucasian nation might be predominantly Christian Orthodox, but it also harbours a valuable, often forgotten, Muslim heritage. The architecture and photography project “Indigenous Outsiders” carried by Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Angela Wheeler and Vladimer Shioshvili aims to let people discover the old wooden mosques of the Adjara province and raise awareness about their preservation.

Shioshvili: As the locals told us, most of the mosques used to have minarets, but in the 1920s they were all demolished, due to Soviet anti-religious policies. These policies took a while longer to be implemented in Adjara’s mountainous areas. The closer a place was to the coast, the sooner the demolition would start. Mosques were usually converted into agricultural storage buildings, and sometimes into kinds of medical clinics. Across Georgia, larger buildings, like the cathedral in Batumi, were completely demolished, but Adjara’s mosques weren’t targeted as they were smaller and their architecture did not differ much from that of other houses. Shioshvili: Especially the mosques further inland tend to be more actively used, because there are more Muslim communities living there and less conversion to Christianity. But the villages there are struggling in the sense that there are not many people left; young people especially are moving closer to Batumi to find work more easily. In relation to the mosques as works of architecture, the title ‘indigenous outsiders’ further speaks to the buildings as expressions of an Ottoman or ‘outside’ produced building typology which has then been interpreted and decorated in a local or ‘indigenous’ fashion. Interior of the mosque in Pirveli Maisi. Are there many abandoned mosques in Adjara? Harris-Brandts: No. Over time, the work we did was a mix of physically coming across them during our own field research and looking at other scholars’ work, such as that of professor Ruslan Baramidze , who has done some work from an anthropological point of view. Once we made our initial list of mosques and their locations, we found more by word-of-mouth and field travels. Our team brought to life the idea of ​​creating a complex that reflects the national spirit of Georgia and the originality: the national flag of Georgia became the cause of the red roofs of buildings, as well as the shape of the hotel’s roof.

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After decades of state sanctioned anti-religious communist policies, and a post-Soviet revival of the Orthodox faith in Adjara, Muslims are now a minority in the province. Near the coast, in urban areas like Georgia’s second-largest city Batumi, few traces remain of the Ottoman past. Most Muslim communities live inland where many small Islamic architectural gems are hidden. In villages in this mountainous and green area, many wooden mosques built during the 19 th century are still standing. While they might look like normal houses from outside, their interiors are finely decorated and painted. Harris-Brandts: Very few mosques are abandoned in Adjara, because most are maintained by their communities, using the humble means available to them. There are a few abandoned structures; some that accidentally suffered fires during Soviet times when they would often be used to store hay and fertilizers, and others that have now been replaced with larger, nearby mosque facilities. In the case of the latter, the old mosques are often converted into madrasas or other community facilities and therefore remain in use. There has been some support by the Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency of Adjara for renovating them, and to provide some expertise and funding.

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The final stage of the process takes place in the ANDRITZ coolers, finishing and further increasing the durability of the pellet. Strength is a critical factor in this process, as these small finished pellets have a long journey aboard rail cars bound for Savannah and then outbound transportation overseas. Nowadays, hotel business is actively developing. Those who promote it are interested in the hotels from wood. This material has one important quality - environmental friendliness, safety for human health and the environment. Wood has low thermal conductivity, so even in the bitter cold it’s always warm inside a wooden house.One of the challenges with locating many of the mosques is that the communities can dismantle them and move them,” says Shioshvili. The company’s product, made from Southern Yellow Pine, is exported to several European countries currently attempting to reduce their use of fossil fuels by utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar power, wind power, and sustainable wood pellets. Harris-Brandts: There are similar motifs across some of them, but there is a large degree of variance in terms of colour palettes and textures. The buildings themselves are all very similar; they are rectangular with a Qibla wall facing Mecca and a second floor mezzanine overlooking the prayer hall. There are three primary means of interior decoration. One is just paintings on the walls. There is a large variety in this regard; some carry local motifs from agriculture, such as corn or flowers; others are decorated with swords and Islamic references. Second, there is applied wood detailing, where small cutout pieces are nailed or glued as decorations and then painted in different colours. This is a way of making ornaments without having a skilled carver at hand. Third, and this is the most striking kind of decoration, is the actual wood carving, which usually was done by travelling Laz craftsmen. As we understand it, the architectural designs themselves were done locally and then, if the communities had the resources, Laz masters, when they travelled through the area, would ornament the interiors with a range of intricate carvings. Interior of the mosque in Chao. As far as I understand, some building are preserved and added to the heritage list, but most are not and there is no specific policy for preserving wooden mosques in Georgia? News about our Dezeen Awards China programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates.